Chapter 254: Damn it, Did His Dao Heart Shatter?

And at this moment.

In the center of the arena.

"Break—!!!"

"Explosive Flame Heart!"

Yan Lie decisively unleashed a dangerous high-tier skill.

He ignited the fire elements surrounding his body as the epicenter.

One misstep, and he would suffer backlash.

BOOM!!!

The indestructible ice sculpture shattered violently under the explosion.

Ice shards flew everywhere.

Yet even though Yan Lie broke free from the ice,

his current state was horrific beyond words.

Just one instant before he shattered the ice,

the frigid ice blades growing inward within the Ten Thousand Blades Ice Burial Array had already pierced his flesh.

"Puh—!"

Yan Lie spat out a huge gout of blood.

His entire body was covered in terrifying wounds, deep enough to expose bone.

Blood instantly soaked his whole body.

He gasped heavily, knelt on one knee, and clung desperately to his staff to support himself.

"Broken…"

Yan Lie gritted his teeth.

But he hadn't even caught a breath.

An indescribable, terrifying pressure instantly locked onto him.

Yan Lie lifted his head.

He saw the giant fox, its body entwined with lightning serpents.

And he saw…

The center of the despairing thunderstorm in the sky.

"Still… more?!"

Yan Lie's heart clenched sharply.

A fear unlike any he'd ever known completely swallowed his reason.

BOOM—!!!

Divine Punishment: Thundercloud Hell!

Divine Punishment: Thunder God's Spear!

Two high-tier thunder techniques descended simultaneously from the heavens!

One was a thunderous bombardment engulfing the entire arena.

The other was a compressed beam of utter destruction.

Fast!

Too fast!

The speed of the lightning was far beyond what the injured Yan Lie could react to.

He stared at the pure white Thunder God's Spear, piercing heaven and earth.

His mind went blank.

Can't dodge!

Absolutely can't dodge!

Even at full strength, he wouldn't have been certain of avoiding it.

Especially now, already badly wounded…

Even with the Medical Director's soul protection, he wouldn't die.

But in that instant of being instantly obliterated, the agony of being burned to charcoal, torn apart by lightning, was one hundred percent real.

Yan Lie did not want to experience that pain.

He swiftly flipped his right hand, and a scroll appeared in his grasp.

A high-grade purification scroll, capable of cleansing all negative effects below high-tier control skills.

Hum—!

A flash of golden light.

The gray aura suppressing his attributes, which had enveloped Yan Lie, shattered instantly.

At this moment,

the full attributes of the 65-level dual-element Archmage surged back.

Vast spiritual power flooded his entire body.

In the stands,

the upperclassmen's eyes were sharp.

Seeing this, the entire arena erupted in chaos!

"What the hell!"

"Purification scroll?!"

"Senior Yan Lie cleared the attribute suppression debuff?!"

"He's cheating! Wasn't it agreed that attribute suppression was absolutely fair?!"

"He's lost all shame!"

Yet.

It was too late.

Even if he regained his 65-level attributes,

even if he was a dual-element Archmage,

he was still, ultimately, a fragile mage with pitiful defense.

After being severely wounded by a high-tier ice skill,

facing these twin manifestations of heavenly wrath—

BOOMMMMM—!!!

Lightning instantly swallowed Yan Lie's body.

The blinding light caused everyone in the stands to instinctively shut their eyes.

The entire arena shook violently.

Even with the defense array cast by a Law God,

everyone still felt the destructive tremors.

Within the light,

Yan Lie never even had time to scream.

His body was struck by lightning, pierced through by the Thunder God's Spear.

A white light erupted from his body, shooting skyward.

Simultaneously, a white cocoon tightly wrapped around Yan Lie's body.

Soul protection activated.

The light faded.

In the center of the arena, only a bottomless, charred crater remained.

And at the crater's bottom, the figure wrapped in the white cocoon.

Yan Lie, through the cocoon, gazed at the thunderclouds slowly dispersing overhead.

I…

Really couldn't even defeat his pet…

?

…

On the other side of the arena,

Bai Bai, possessed by the Thunder Strike Technique, proudly lifted his head.

The lightning around his body gradually receded.

He didn't even glance at Yan Lie at the bottom of the pit—only elegantly licked his paw.

In the skill bar,

【'Thunder Strike' coldly withdrew its gaze: "Worthless."】

【'Fireball' immediately echoed: "Third brother's right."】

【'Ice Spike' sneered sarcastically: "Indeed."】

【'Earth Shield' sighed: "Pity. Didn't make it until Second Brother's turn."】

……

After a brief silence.

From the stands came waves of cheers.

"Big Demon King is awesome!!!"

"Big White is awesome!!!"

Han Meng jumped onto her chair in excitement.

Wang Dawei laughed heartily:

"Hahahaha…"

"What so-called genius? In front of the Big Demon King, he's more like a waste."

Chu Lingxuan covered her mouth with her small hand, her eyes filled with adoring stars.

"Our monitor is still too overpowered—even her pet is this strong…"

It wasn't just the students of Longxu Class.

Other students were also plunged into stunned disbelief.

"Did the Big Demon King win?!"

"The Big Demon King won again!"

"Damn, did I just see that right? Didn't Senior Yan Lie remove his attribute suppression at the last moment?"

"Yes! I saw it with my own eyes! He used a Purification Scroll!"

"That was his full 65-level state!"

"He crossed nearly thirty levels!"

"And he was still instantly killed by the Big Demon King's pet?!"

All the students stared at each other, unable to believe what they had seen.

After all,

this instant kill was nothing like the one during the Freshman Trial.

During the Freshman Trial, the Big Demon King's opponent was just a group of ordinary second-year students—students who didn't even know high-level techniques.

But this time, the Big Demon King faced a dual-element Law King nearly thirty levels higher!

The former monitor of Longxu Class!

The chairman of the Dragon Nation Youth Mage Association!

And yet…

He didn't even last ten seconds!

……

At the edge of the stands.

Director Su Jing's face was filled with disbelief.

"How is this possible…"

As the director of Jingda's Medical Department,

how could she not know that guy named Yan Lie?

During the year Yan Lie was still at school, he was the Medical Department's nightmare!

Almost every few days, the Medical Department had to rush out.

To clean up after Yan Lie!

Of course, not to treat Yan Lie—but to treat his opponents, left half-dead by his blows.

Among his peers, Yan Lie was the very definition of invincible.

But now?

Against Lin Mo, he lost in under ten seconds.

No…

It should be said—he lost to Lin Mo's pet…

"Truly… each generation is stronger than the last…"

Director Su Jing sighed.

Beside her,

Gu He and other senior figures were equally stunned.

"Principal…"

Xu Wenchang murmured.

"Yan Lie removed his suppression at the end, right?"

Gu He took a deep breath and nodded.

"He removed it."

"Even restored to his full 65-level state, he was still pierced through in one shot."

Although they had long known Lin Mo's strength,

the fact that he could so cleanly and swiftly kill Yan Lie—a dual-element Law King prodigy—despite the nearly thirty-level gap still took them by surprise.

It wasn't even a fair fight.

Clearly, a four-element Law King and a dual-element Law King were not on the same level.

Xu Wenchang stared at the elegant Wu Xiang Tai Xu Beast beside Lin Mo, his mouth opening slightly:

"Typically, a contracted beast's power barely reaches seventy percent of its master's."

"This Wu Xiang Tai Xu Beast is already insane…"

"What if Lin Mo himself fought…"

Xu Wenchang dared not imagine further.

The image was too brutal.

Nie Zhenguo appeared calm as a mountain.

But the shock in his eyes could not be hidden.

He looked at the boy sitting casually on the chair atop the arena.

A satisfied smile curled on his lips.

"Good! What a Big Demon King! With a boy like this, what does Dragon Nation have to fear?"

Among these four senior figures,

the most stunned was Feng Cangqiong, chairman of the Dragon Nation Mage Association.

Yan Lie was without doubt the top prodigy he had nurtured in recent years.

He had even groomed Yan Lie as his successor as chairman of the Mage Association.

In Feng Cangqiong's eyes,

Yan Lie possessed unshakable conviction and unparalleled combat talent.

Yet today…

He lost in under ten seconds—to Lin Mo's pet.

Feng Cangqiong stared deeply at Lin Mo.

No wonder Nie Lao had chosen him.

Suddenly,

he was jolted.

Yan Lie had been too arrogant, too proud.

In his entire life, he had never suffered such a crushing defeat.

Especially not at the hands of a pet, in front of thousands, annihilated in an instant.

Even at the last moment, Yan Lie had broken his own vow by removing his suppression.

For a proud battle fanatic, this must have been unbearable.

"Could this boy's Dao heart have been shattered outright?"

Feng Cangqiong's heart sank sharply.

He could no longer sit still.

His figure flashed.

He shot toward the massive crater at the center of the arena.